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Grade 4 Reading & Writing · World 2: Root Ruins · Level 15
Build-a-Word
Combine prefix, root, and suffix tiles to make a word that means what you hear (able to be seen: visible), and build a word family (construct, construction, constructive).
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 15
- Now you can build like the ancient builders! Put a prefix, a root, and a suffix together to make a word that means exactly what you want.
- Invisible: in means not, vis means see, and ible means able to be. So invisible means not able to be seen!
- One root can grow a whole family. Construct is the action. Construction is the act of building. Constructive describes something that helps build.
- Invent, invention, inventive, inventor. The suffix tells you each word's job: tion names the act, ive describes, and or names a person.
- Your turn! Build the word that means able to be carried.
- And take a word apart. Tap the gaps between the parts of reporter.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 4.L.V.2.c — Construct words using knowledge of Greek and Latin roots, root words, and affixes. (C)
- 4.L.V.2.b — Explain how the part of speech and the meaning of a root or root word changes based on the use of different affixes (e.g., beautiful as an adjective vs. beautifully as an adverb). (I)
- 4.F.P.4.c — Decode and encode words with common prefixes and suffixes.